links - history

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
How did the web start? Why is it the way it is?

A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based
hypermedia initiative for global information sharing, while at CERN, (European Particle Physics
Laboratory), in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of
URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

Inventor of the Web

Internet Pioneers - Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
"It seems strange to think that [the internet] has only been around for a few years. [Its use] became widespread in the mid 1990s, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee ... landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN ... "
Tim Berners-Lee
: 2010

People

Pioneers - The People of the WWW
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/
"Ten individuals whose work has contributed significantly to the development of the Internet."
Scott Griffin
: 2000

The Tech

Prefix or Posthack
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/
Discussion of "vendor prefixes—the -*- properties like -moz-border-radius, -webkit-animation, and so on. ... prefixes should become a central part of the CSS standardization process."
Eric Meyer - A List Apart
: June 2010